Sentences with phrase «while weaker schools»

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We find that, while statistically significant, the strength of the relationship between living with a single - parent family and educational attainment is comparable to the relationships for family size and the age of the mother at the time of the child's birth and weaker than the relationship for maternal schooling.

His advice for further improvement in Poland and abroad — «We have to provide more support for the weakest students, while at the same time we need to better recognize different talents and find multiple ways to make them flourish within the comprehensive school system.»

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to e-safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of e-safety policies and practice.

I was alarmed at how much we were spending on SIG and the awful track record of previous turnaround efforts, and I was sure that districts would pick weak interventions and that kids were going to continue languishing in these schools while we went about this misguided adventure.

However, evaluation data from the school self - assessment tool 360 Degree Safe finds that while this is improving year on year, it is still one of the weakest areas of e-safety provision in schools.

But OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.

He said equity in the Australian school system is above the OECD average, but OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.

The Jacob - Lefgren study also shows that school principals are good at identifying the very best teachers as well as the weakest ones, exactly the capability needed to reward the topflyers while weeding out those who belong in another profession.

Parochial schools are less likely to fall into the public - school habit of «structuring inequities»: public schools offer students the chance to take weaker academic courses while Catholic school courses are «largely determined by the school.»

We have to provide more support for the weakest students, while at the same time we need to better recognize different talents and find multiple ways to make them flourish within the comprehensive school system.

Ofsted data from 84 schools inspected about online safety in 2015 and self - review data from 7,000 schools using 360 Degree Safe has found that while schools are on the whole very strong when it comes to online safety policies and filtering, they are weaker on staff and governor training, pupil involvement and evaluating impact of online safety policies and practice.

While there's much emphasis on the necessity of school choice («choice can strongly foster diversity and increase the options for students living in areas where the existing schools are weak») there's an oxymoronic antipathy towards public charter schools which, in our most segregated districts, are often the only choices available to families who can't afford private schools or out - of - district tuition.

Every year, she sees her strongest students go off to private primary schools, while weaker students enroll in public schools.

While a record number of charter schools have opened this year, 150 were shuttered for either low enrollment, financial troubles or weak academic performance, according to NAPCS.

Weaker schools splashing the cash on sticking plaster services, while stronger schools lease out their best teachers to other schools — their own staff losing PPA time (and sanity) covering lessons for kids who won't sit exams this year (kick that can down the road).

The evidence showed that high school GPA is an accurate predictor of college completion, while the SAT is very weak.

My son's math marks in high school have always been weak so I found it very beneficial that his ACT tutor worked on solidifying his fundamentals while prepping for the ACT.

Faced with evidence that performance pay does not directly improve instruction, promoters of the system have turned to a different claim — that performance pay will help school systems attract and retain strong teachers, while discouraging weaker ones.

While prior evidence paints a mixed picture of the influence of demographic variables on leader efficacy, the overall effect of such variables seems to be weak or non - existent.185 For example, virtually no evidence suggests that school level or size, 186 teachers «age or total years of experience in education, student SES or student ethnicity, influence leader efficacy.187

It'll take a while, but eventually students will figure that out (not for nothing, but in the US, where tuition fees are exgregious and bear little relation to the quality of education, weaker schools are having to cut tuition fees, or indeed, shut down programs, as would - be students have figured out that the degree isn't worth what they're being asked to pay for.

In 2014, they found that while the strongest areas are around filtering and policies, schools are weakest when it comes to youth engagement, community engagement and training of staff and governors.

Despite the importance and effectiveness of youth engagement in delivering outstanding e-safety provision in schools, the latest findings show that while this is improving year on year, it is still one of the weakest areas of e-safety provision in schools.